Alex is on vacation in Europe, though he pretends that it is some kind of fact-finding mission. He frequently refers to it as going to find out what he can before Europe collapses, something that he believes is imminent.

He takes along Rob Dew and his cousin Buckley, but not David Knight, who is left to host the show in Alex's absence, and thus, we have no idea what kinda bullshit he was talking about.